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[getter77]

No reason to think the game won't continue and still very much be The Game---just a matter of time and circumstance.  The excellence of Sproggiwood hopefully doing great things for unormal and the team only serves to bolster the lot of it.

[beorn080]

So.  I just had an idea for metamorphosis that would both fix the infinite bit fountain and make it potent but not horribly abusable. I think. Would make it a five point must though.

Each level of metamorphosis, you get a new scan creature command. This would be either touch range or long distance, but I think long distance would be nicer, as it would let weaker characters physically use the skill. After using it, it would replace the command with a transform into x command. This would give you access to the new body form and whatever MIT's and skills it has. But not equipment. You keep your inventory. So, now you have an equimax form, which you can equip from your inventory. As you level up, actual levels and not mutation, all your forms gain levels as well. This gives you options, such as turning into a smart for to gain access to tinker, or a for with multiple legs to run away. The balance is that all the skills would share a cool down, and it would be long. Like, double the current cool down minimum. So, you wouldn't be able yo rapid fire switch skills and mutation sets, as it would incur a hefty food cost even if you waited it out in safety. Oh, and it should share health and food meters, but perhaps heal you somewhat when you change.

[unormal]

That's an amazing love note to the game, thank you.

Deserved or not, at least know we have as much love for the crazy game as you guys. One reason we set it aside instead of just throwing out content isn't a lack of interest but just a desire to make sure when we DO add content it meets our (and your) standards. Its easy to throw in the kitchen sink, but to reach the level of authenticity that we really enjoy is a lot of (mostly behind the scenes) labor.

E: Ultimately after 7 years we had completed a miniscule portion of the 'original vision' which was a vast (and naive) hunk to try to hack off in a single unrelenting push. So we stepped back and said 'Man we bit off the work of several lifetimes without really being prepared here. If we want to make a serious go at a complete game of this scale we have some preliminary years of work and experience to prepare.' So were working through it!

[Aquillion]

You can already get infinite bits pretty easily with Metamorphisis and Temporal Fugue, but that's expensive and not really all that powerful, compared to picking combat mutations instead.

Metamorphisis isn't completed yet, anyway, is it?  It's currently only available if you enable the "incomplete" stuff, presumably because it clearly has a bunch of issues (for one thing, it doesn't care about level yet, and for another, it duplicates everything your target is carrying -- permanently, if you drop the stuff before it wears off.)  It's fun to fool around with, but it's not yet ready for actual play.

[unormal]

Check it out, I've got it running fairly nicely inside a Unity framework now. That means, initially, Mac & Linux support, and a much more powerful framework than my hand-rolled base engine for potential future additions like Steamworks, tiles, sound/music, etc.

[Dostoevsky]

Very nice news indeed.

I must say, though, while I'm generally the sort of plebian that prefers tiles for my roguelikes it's hard to imagine a tileset that could do the world of Caves of Qud justice.

[Angle]

DEATH TO THE TILE USERS! ASCII SHALL REIGN SUPREME FOREVER!

Linux support sounds real nice, though.

[BigD145]

ANDROID

[unormal]

It's probably too ram-heavy to run on non-desktop-class computers.

[BigD145]

Is it really? Modern tablets run King of Dragon Pass, OpenTTD, and Windows 95.

[unormal]

Yeah, it uses a lot, because every object in the game including the walls and floors is a complete object as complete as the player. I wasn't thinking phones 10 years ago when I started it.

[BigD145]

It's only 160MB with a new game on a desktop. A lot of tablets have 1 GB of RAM. If you want to test on a Tegra 3 device, let me know.

[unormal]

It's only 160MB with a new game on a desktop. A lot of tablets have 1 GB of RAM. If you want to test on a Tegra 3 device, let me know.

Well, nothing's stopping us from trying it, at least.

[varsovie]

DEATH TO THE TILE USERS! ASCII SHALL REIGN SUPREME FOREVER!

Fight the good fight, brother.

It's weird; the first roguelike I played was Nethack, with tiles. But the more different ones I played, the more I was seduced by ASCII. If anything, you'd have thought it'd be the other way around.

Very interesting news about the Unity framework, anyway! Continuing to watch with interest.

I'm weirder, played few ASCII roguelikes, but never "hooked" before playing DCSS with tiles. Now I prefer to play in ASCII if there's the option, except Crawl.

Good new for Linux <3.

[unormal]

If anyone would like to help test out very early builds of Unity-base Caves of Qud (which works on Windows, Mac & Linux) here are some Steam keys!

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